Maryland Life Sciences
Maryland At MedTech
From an idea’s first breath, to your final product improving and saving lives, and every step in between, Maryland means big opportunities for medtech innovators. If you are interested in learning more about some of the leading medtech companies in Maryland, contact them directly through their listed email below.
From surgical robots to healthcare software. From wearables to disease detection technology. Maryland companies are innovating for the future of medical technology. Check out the leading companies in Maryland. Scroll below for full company profiles.
AGED Diagnostics is using genomic innovation to develop the most accurate blood test for liver disease to improve patient outcomes through early detection and intervention.
ARMR Systems develops wearable hemorrhage control systems designed to increase the survivability of traumatic injury in situations where advanced medical support is not immediately available.
Backpack Healthcare is a telehealth mental health company dedicated to serving the underserved population and to developing revolutionary technology aimed at greatly improving patient outcomes.
CarrTech is revolutionizing the filter needle industry by simplifying the process, improving safety and compliance with an innovative all-in-one package solution.
CSSi LifeSciences is a global, innovative CRO and consulting group that specializes in advancing drugs and medical device technologies from discovery to commercialization.
Djit Medtech is making finger joint replacement for hand arthritis patients as routine and reliable as knee and hip replacements.
Drizzle Health makes low cost, high performance diagnostic products for infectious disease.
Evon Medics is a neuroscience research and medical devices company that develops therapeutics and medical devices for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurological diseases.
GaitBetter uses semi-immersive VR and machine learning to bring motor-cognitive intervention to treadmill training.
Hawkeye MedTech’s TotalCare™ software platform provides virtually scheduled visits to the patient’s current healthcare providers from the place of their convenience.
The LaunchPort is a MedTech venture center and manufacturing site.
Linshom is first to deliver an operating room quality respiratory profile to the patient bedside or home for continuous, predictive respiratory monitoring (CPRM).
An advanced biomaterials company specializing in custom biopolymers for treating bleeding and managing wounds.
Provides surgical confidence in the operating room, making critical anatomy visible by providing structural and functional tissue information to operating surgeons in real-time to improve patient health.
PediaMetrix brings AI and computer vision to pediatric care to lower the cost and improve patient outcomes.
PsyTechVR is a technology company specializing in developing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions for mental health therapy, research, and training.
Sonogen Medical is working to commercialize a next-generation ultrasonic bone fracture healing device, with built-in diagnostic fracture healing capability.
TechSlice builds custom software for entrepreneurs commercializing medical devices, diagnostics and next gen neuro technologies.
AGED Diagnostics is using genomic innovation to develop the most accurate blood test for liver disease to improve patient outcomes through early detection and intervention.
ARMR Systems develops wearable hemorrhage control systems designed to increase the survivability of traumatic injury in situations where advanced medical support is not immediately available.
Backpack Healthcare is a telehealth mental health company dedicated to serving the underserved population and to developing revolutionary technology aimed at greatly improving patient outcomes.
CarrTech is revolutionizing the filter needle industry by simplifying the process, improving safety and compliance with an innovative all-in-one package solution.
CSSi LifeSciences is a global, innovative CRO and consulting group that specializes in advancing drugs and medical device technologies from discovery to commercialization.
Djit Medtech is making finger joint replacement for hand arthritis patients as routine and reliable as knee and hip replacements.
Drizzle Health makes low cost, high performance diagnostic products for infectious disease.
Evon Medics is a neuroscience research and medical devices company that develops therapeutics and medical devices for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurological diseases.
GaitBetter uses semi-immersive VR and machine learning to bring motor-cognitive intervention to treadmill training.
Hawkeye MedTech’s TotalCare™ software platform provides virtually scheduled visits to the patient’s current healthcare providers from the place of their convenience.
The LaunchPort is a MedTech venture center and manufacturing site.
Linshom is first to deliver an operating room quality respiratory profile to the patient bedside or home for continuous, predictive respiratory monitoring (CPRM).
An advanced biomaterials company specializing in custom biopolymers for treating bleeding and managing wounds.
Provides surgical confidence in the operating room, making critical anatomy visible by providing structural and functional tissue information to operating surgeons in real-time to improve patient health.
PediaMetrix brings AI and computer vision to pediatric care to lower the cost and improve patient outcomes.
PsyTechVR is a technology company specializing in developing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions for mental health therapy, research, and training.
Sonogen Medical is working to commercialize a next-generation ultrasonic bone fracture healing device, with built-in diagnostic fracture healing capability.
TechSlice builds custom software for entrepreneurs commercializing medical devices, diagnostics and next gen neuro technologies.
From Prototype to Packaging
Do it all in Maryland
Maryland is your one stop shop for medtech innovation and implementation. Let us show you how in five easy steps.
Some of the greatest minds in the medical fields make Maryland home, and it’s no mystery why. Powerhouse innovation hubs like the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, the #1 US Biomedical Engineering program; the University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering; and Maryland’s federal research facilities are at the bleeding edge of the MedTech revolution generating ideas and talent.
With over 50 life sciences innovation incubators including medtech-centric facilities, serious entrepreneurial resources, our world-class university system, and thriving private sector, in Maryland you will find fertile ground for your ideas to grow.
What do the NIH, FDA and CMS have in common? They’re all headquartered here in Maryland. With agency access in your backyard and experienced consultants on the ground to guide you through regulatory compliance and insurance reimbursement, Maryland gives you a running start at the medtech market.
Time to make the leap from idea to reality? Maryland has nationally competitive manufacturing incentives to get you started, like our Maryland Manufacturing 4.0 grant program to help you invest in the latest and greatest tech. Maryland has the deep, flexible, future-facing, ISO-certified industry base you need and a world-class medtech workforce to get your product to the finish line.
Build it here and Maryland will get your product to the world. Our central location on the Eastern Seaboard means easy rail, road and air access to the entire U.S.; and with the Port of Baltimore in your backyard and innovative programs like ExportMD here to help kick down the door to overseas markets, getting your product where you want it is a breeze!
AGED Diagnostics
AGED Diagnostics is developing two diagnostic blood tests: one for fatty liver disease and a second tool that can stage liver fibrosis based on a targeted epigenetic sequencing assessment from patient blood.
Many people are unaware they have liver disease until the disease has progressed to later stages at which time it is no longer curable. AGED Diagnostics is using genomic innovation to develop the most accurate blood test for liver disease and liver fibrosis to help physicians keep patients in the monitoring program, reduce the financial burden for health insurers, and improve patient outcomes through early detection and intervention.
Contact:
Rachel Zayas, CEO
rachel@ageddiagnostics.com
ARMR Systems Inc.
ARMR Systems is an early stage medical device company. Since 2014, ARMR has developed hemorrhage control systems designed to increase the survivability of traumatic injury in situations where advanced medical support is not immediately available.
The novel wearable platform stops severe arterial bleeds and can respond to trauma in any theater. The device saves lives, democratizes access to care, and gives hope to victims of traumatic injury when they need it most.
Contact:
Chibueze Ihenacho, CEO & Founder
c.ihenacho@armrsystems.com
Backpack Healthcare
Backpack Healthcare is a telehealth mental health company dedicated to serving the underserved population, breaking down the barriers patients face when accessing mental health services and to developing revolutionary technology aimed at greatly improving patient outcomes.
With a focus on children, Backpack Healthcare's bibliotherapy will allow patients to see themselves in stories where they learn diagnosis specific strategies that help improve their lives while also under the care and support of a dedicated care team.
Contact:
Dr. Duke Ruktanonchai, Chief Medical Officer
duke.ruktanonchai@hellobackpack.com
CarrTech Corp
CarrTech is a medical device company that has developed, patented, and prototyped a novel all-in-one filter device called FROG, Filter Removal of Glass.
FROG is safer for both patients and healthcare workers. CarrTech is working with strategic partners, preparing for FDA submission with anticipated approval in 2024, to revolutionize the filter needle industry.
Contact:
Sue Carr, President
sue@carrtechcorp.com
CSSi LifeSciences
CSSi LifeSciences is a global, innovative CRO and consulting group that specializes in advancing drugs and medical device technologies from discovery to commercialization. The company offers customized solutions to propel life science technologies to market by mitigating risks, time, and cost, while increasing your chances of success.
The team's insights, proven processes and strategic perspective deliver clear and actionable pathway to successful commercialization. Their integrated model provides optimum value-creation for early-stage and emerging growth companies.
Contact:
Jim Sergi, President
jsergi@cssilifesciences.com
Djit Medtech, LLC
Djit Medtech is making finger joint replacement for hand arthritis patients as routine and reliable as knee and hip replacements.
The majority of people with symptomatic hand arthritis are excluded from joint replacement surgery, leaving many with no good treatment options. Djit Medtech was founded by a hand trauma patient and surgeon to answer this underserved market. The company is developing a new small joint replacement technology that promises to relieve pain and preserve motion for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic hand arthritis patients.
Contact:
Marcia Hart, CEO & Co-Founder
marcia.hart@djit-medtech.com
Drizzle Health, LLC
Drizzle Health makes low cost, high performance diagnostic products for infectious diseases. The company was founded by two Johns Hopkins alumni from South Africa and India. Their vision is to bring low-cost, high-performance community centric testing for a variety of diseases to everyone.
With their patent pending polarimetric technology platform, they're making Tuberculosis testing in low-and-middle-income communities affordable, real-time, and accurate, starting with the Indian Market. Their current products include the MagnaSlide and their patent-pending AI-enabled optical platform Medupi which enables real-time detection of a variety of bacteria.
Contact:
Digvijay Singh, CEO
digvijay@drizzlehealth.com
Evon Medics, LLC
Evon Medics is a neuroscience research and medical devices company that develops therapeutics and medical devices for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurological diseases.
Their products are a derivative of their patented olfactory treatment delivery systems (OTDS) that uses the concept of nebulizing natural essential oils to stimulate the olfactory regions of the brain in conjunction with computerized olfactory training tasks.
Contact:
Charles Nwaokobia, COO/President
cnwaokobia@evonmedics.org
GaitBetter
GaitBetter uses semi-immersive VR and machine learning to bring motor-cognitive intervention to treadmill training. The results are a reduction in falls among older adults that is up to 3X more effective and 10X cheaper than existing interventions.
GaitBetter transforms any existing treadmill into a smart, personalized, safe, and fun gait training system. Clients can practice real-life scenarios such as walking on busy city streets, avoiding puddles, walking in low light conditions, and responding to distractions. GaitBetter enables therapists to fully personalize training through the VR system.
Contact:
Craig Hillman, SVP
craig@gaitbetter.com
Hawkeye MedTech, Inc
Hawkeye MedTech focuses on reducing health equity by improving access to healthcare. With made-in-Maryland Portable Telehealth Stations, the company is bringing healthcare closer to underserved and rural communities.
Hawkeye MedTech's TotalCare Telehealth Platform is used not only to schedule virtual visits with patient's own providers but also to self-manage their chronic conditions. TotalCare is fully-HIPAA compliant so all information is private and secure.
Contact:
Ashok Kapur, CEO & Founder
akapur@hawkeyemedtech.com
The LaunchPort
The LaunchPort is part of comprehensive medtech and data eco-system that includes private, institutional, federal and state resources. Locating at LaunchPort brings companies access and involvement in one of the world’s premier life sciences centers.
The goal of The LaunchPort is to create an environment that supports emerging growth companies’ ability to utilize the region’s considerable federal, state and private life sciences resources to build their businesses.
Contact:
Bob Storey, Managing Partner
bstorey@mvrco.com
Linshom Medical
Linshom Medical is first to deliver an operating room quality respiratory profile to the patient bedside or home for continuous, predictive respiratory monitoring (CPRM).
This wearable, FDA cleared sensor provides advance notice to health care providers of respiratory decline when simple interventions can be taken and avoid costly rapid response activations, rescue events, ICU transfers and deaths.
Contact:
Richard Hughen, CEO
RHughen@LinshomForLife.com
Medcura
Medcura is a hemostat device startup that specializes in over the counter and surgical hemostats. All hemostat devices that are designed using the Medcura platform quickly stop bleeding using an inert, self-assembling biopolymer that has been cleared by the FDA for multiple consumer and vascular closure applications.
Medcura’s platform utilizes a hydrophobically modified chitosan, which has known antimicrobial properties. The material can conform to bleeding tissue of varying shapes and sizes, working independently of the body’s natural clotting ability. Its revolutionary no-swell properties differentiates Medcura hemostats from others, allowing use in surgical procedures when swelling cannot be tolerated.
Contact:
Steve Ford, Senior VP of Marketing & Business Development
sford@medcurainc.com
Optosurgical, LLC
Optosurgical is spearheading medical imaging innovation in thyroid, colorectal, and gastrointestinal surgeries, providing surgical confidence in the operating room.
The company's mission is to make critical anatomy visible by providing structural and functional tissue information to operating surgeons in real-time to improve patient health outcomes. The outcome of Optosurgical's current project is a label-free, non-invasive technology for detecting, quantifying tissue viability of, and preserving parathyroid glands during thyroid surgeries.
Contact:
Yoseph Kim, CEO
yoseph.kim@optosurgical.com
PediaMetrix
PediaMetrix brings AI and computer vision to pediatrics to lower healthcare cost and improve patient outcome.
SoftSpot, the company's beachhead product is the first and only FDA cleared software-as-a-medical-device to allow skull shape measurements from primary pediatric offices or a home environment. Early detection allows less intensive and expensive treatment options for a variety of deformity conditions including skull, spine, ear, and dental.
Contact:
Reza Seifabadi, COO
reza.seifabadi@pediametrix.com
PsyTechVR
PsyTechVR is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in developing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions for mental health therapy, research, and training.
The company was founded in 2020 by a team of psychology, neuroscience, and technology experts to revolutionize mental health treatment. PsyTechVR's flagship product is a VR platform called "MindGap VR" which provides clinicians and researchers with a powerful tool for delivering evidence-based therapies in a safe, controlled, and interactive environment.
Contact:
Peter Oykhman, CEO
peter@psytechvr.com
Sonogen Medical, Inc.
Sonogen Medical is working to commercialize an ultrasonic bone growth stimulation device that dramatically reduces bone fracture healing time while providing real-time feedback on both patient compliance and the fracture healing process.
The company combines decades of experience in fluid mechanics, biophysics, and sonar and medical ultrasounds. Sonogen's innovative multi-modal ultrasonic bone fracture stimulation technology has been shown to be extremely effective for bone growth stimulation in recent animal trials conducted with two of the world's most well respected medical institutions.
Contact:
Jason Winder, CEO
jason.winder@sonogenmed.com
TechSlice
TechSlice is a software product agency that works with innovators and entrepreneurs to bring their ideas into reality. The agency's full suite team helps support every step of the product journey from fine tuning ideas to product and brand launch.
With a main focus on software platforms and integrations, the team pulls in expertise across Market Research, UX, Marketing, Branding, Strategy, Hardware, and Compliance. The cost-plus-equity contract approach makes launching a startup more affordable and lowers technical barriers.
Contact:
Juliana Buonanno, CEO
Juliana@TechSlice.com
